The Leafs are like the same team that the HFboards hive-mind would collectively build for itself, and its glorious to see how miserably bad it failed, and how predictable it all was.
People will continue to laugh at the Sens for targeting guys like Brassard, Stepan, ect ect. And while some have obviously failed, at some time or another people online are going to have to wake up and realize that intangibles are absolutely a real thing. And that high character, leadership, and a winning attitude/ultra-competitive and pro like mentality is worth so much in reality.
And more lessons can be learned from how important it is to build a proper team culture, develop players properly (ie getting the young stars to engage for the entire game), and not trying to run-and-gun your way to a cup with all out offense.
Its a laughably bad approach no matter how sexy it may look on paper. Ive said it many times before, but teams need to wake up and try to be like the Bruins...they have the best team culture in the NHL by far imo, and their stars are always seemingly overachieving for a reason.
